Hook and eye.



Patented Oct. 8, 190i.

M. ALSHULER.

HOOK AND EYE.

(Application filed Apr. 18,1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES ALSHULER, OF \VAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,034, dated October 8, 1901.

Application filed April 18, 1901. Serial No. 66,429, (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it Tnay concern.-

Be it known that I, Mosns ALSHULER, of Waukegan, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, ref ere'nce being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

This invention is an improvement in Wire hook-and-eye fastenings; and its object is to produce a novel hook-and-eye fastening of bent or twisted wire the members of which can be readily sewed on garments by the ordinary disk-button-sewing machines in commercial use.

Another object of my invention is to so form the hooks and eyes that when attached to garments they will be firmly and securely held and cannot turn or twist'thereon and will hold the edges of the garment connected by them flat and smooth.

The invention therefore consists in the peculiar construction of the hooks and eyes, which are each formed of a continuous length of wire bent so as to combine the hook or eye proper with four equidistant contiguou's'attaching-loops, all lyingin the same plane flat and smooth, so that the needle of an ordinary button-sewing machine can pass successively therethrough, just as it passes through the holes of four-hole buttons during the sewing operation.

I am aware that a large number of different forms of wire hook-and-eye fastenings have been made, and some of these have a multiplicity of loops; but none of these is of the peculiar construction of my hook-and-eye fastening,nor are any of the heretofore-known wire hooks and eyes capable of being attached to garments by ordinary button-sewing machines nor any other sewing-machine of which I am aware, although the desirability of having a wire hook-and-eye fastening which could be attached by machine-sewing has long been known to the trade and particularly needed by wholesale manufacturers of ladies garments.

The advantages of attaching hooks and eyes by a sewing-machine are that one operator with a machine can sew on more hooks and eyes thanteu hand workers, and the machinesewed hooks and eyes will be attached more securely,neatly, and uniformly than the handsewed ones.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my novel wire hook-and-eye fastening.

Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective view of the hook; Fig. 2, a similar View of the corresponding eye. Figs. 3 and 4 are top views of the hook and eye, respectively.

The hook is made out of a single length of wire, which is bent about centrally upon itself to form the ordinary engaging member or hook Ct. The parallel lengths of wire are carried back beyond the point of hook and one length is bent into two consecutive contiguous attaching-loops b c, this length of the Wire extending from loop 0 back toward the hook, so as to close loop b, as shown at c. The other length of wire also extends beyond the hook and is bent into two consecutive and contiguous loops (1 e, which are arranged in the same plane as loops 1) c, and all four of said loops are adjacent and practically equidistant from a common center. The length of wire extends from loop 6 to the hook and closes loop d, as at f, and preferably is further carried back between the lower portions of the hook at and is bent up within the hook, as at g, to partly close the latter and prevent casual disengagement of the eye therewith, this length of wire terminating at or near the bend of the hook at.

The eye is formed substantially like the hook, the wire being bent upon itself to form the engaging member or eye proper, h, one of the lengths of Wire being then bent into two contiguous and consecutive loops 'ij and extending from loop 9' back through and closing loop 1', as atj', while the other length of wire is also bent into two consecutive loops is Z and extends from loop Z back through and closes loop 70, as at l. The loops 1) jk Zof the eye are arranged in the same plane, adjacent and equidistant, just as loops 0 cl 6 fof the hook.

By reason of this peculiar construction of the hook and eye, each having an engaging member and four equidistant similar loops in the same plane, they are capable of being attached to a garment by an ordinary buttonsewing machine. The four loops being of equal size and equidistant, like the four holes in a button, the needle can pass through the several loops successively and repeatedly and sew the hook or eye in place just as it sews a button in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent thereon, is

1. The herein-described member of a hookand-eye fastening comprising a wire bent upon itself to form an engaging member, the lengths of wire being extended in rear of said engaging member and then each bent forwardly into two consecutive contiguous outwardly-projecting fiat loops, and the length of wire forming each pair of loops being extended back toward the engaging member to close the loops, the ends of the Wire terminating at the base of the engaging member,

and all of the loops being arranged equidis- ,tant and in the same plane, substantially as and for the purpose set forth,

2. The herein-described member of a hook and-eye fastening formed of a continuous length of wire bent to form the engaging memher, the lengths of wire being extended in rear of the said engaging member, and each length being bent to form two consecutive and adjoining flat loops, all four loops lying equidistant and in the same plane,- and the ends of the Wire terminating near the base of the engaging member, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

MOSES ALSH ULERi In presence of- ARTHUR E. DowELL, CLARENCE N. VVALKER. 

